The Swallow Cave

kmtrip.net Known as one of “the biggest and most splendid cave in Asia”, the Swallow Cave Scenic Region is located in the mountains 30 km east of Jianshui, and consists of a dry cave, a water cave and a 30,000-square-meter natural forest, with a total area of 100,000 square meters. Every year between spring and […]

A Different Tempo of Evolution in Birds and their Parasitic Lice


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Roderic D. M. Page, Patricia L. M. Lee, S. Anette Becher,
Richard Griffiths, and Dale H. Clayton

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Host-Parasite Cospeciation
A key question in the study of coevolution is the tempo and mode of evolution of the interacting partners. Is the association an ancient one, reflecting a long and intimate interaction between the two organisms, or is it a recent event due perhaps to a parasite colonising a new host?
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Swiftlet Population In asia

crystalswiftlets.com Swiftlet Populated Areas in the Asian Continent Swiftlets (or Collocalia Fuciphaga) are predominantly found throughout the South East Asian region. The demand for their nests as a food delicacy has been growing exponentially on  global scale powered by the many affluent chinese communities living throughout the world. The price of 1 kilogramme (about 80 […]

Bird of the Week: Barn Swallow

WCAX 3 – 2 hours, 10 minutes ago They are a chatty bunch. The chatty barn swallow swoops into our homes this Monday morning. This is a family that is learning life outside the nest just leaving their stable home inside the barn. It’s a mud nest that’s often built in the rafters of a barn. The […]

MDOT exits site when birds nest


DetNews.com, MI – Aug 20, 2014
What do you do when you’re the Michigan Department of Transportation and Mother Nature decides to set up a nursery in the middle of a construction project?
You tip-toe away quietly and let nature take its course. That is exactly what happened near Kalamazoo recently when a covey of bank swallows built nests in a work zone, as MDOT was widening Interstate 94.
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Swallows on the move

The Weatherford Democrat – Aug 22 8:42 AM On their trip south, a short Plum Island layover By Stephen Tait THE DAILY NEWS (NEWBURYPORT, Mass.) PLUM ISLAND, Mass. — The sign leading into the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge tells the story of swarms of swallows stopping here to eat up the plentiful moths, spiders and mosquitoes. […]

An amazing sight':Swallows swarm Plum Island on journey south

Gloucester Daily Times – Aug 22 9:11 AM By Stephen Tait Gloucester Daily Times PLUM ISLAND – The sign leading into the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge tells the story of swarms of swallows stopping here to eat up the plentiful moths, spiders and mosquitoes. On a simple white marker board with a drawing of a swallow-like […]

Swallow chief flies the nest

The Herald – Aug 01 6:11 PM PAUL ROGERSON The man who presided over the breakneck expansion of Scotland’s biggest hotel group has left abruptly and without explanation. Peter Gray, who was chief executive of Kent-based Swallow Hotels, led an acquisition spree which has seen the group take over nearly 40 hotels north of the border since […]

Bird of the Week: Barn Swallow

WCAX 3 – 27 minutes ago They are a chatty bunch. The chatty barn swallow swoops into our homes this Monday morning. This is a family that is learning life outside the nest just leaving their stable home inside the barn. It’s a mud nest that’s often built in the rafters of a barn. The barn swallow […]